INDEX. 



Sheep-rot, our old authors on, 279, 357 

 Shorthorns, the Over-fattening of, 176 

 Shorthorns, the Stackhouse herd of, 353 

 Shropshire Sheep at Birmingham, 52 

 Slave States, position and resources of, 182 

 Smithfield Club Show, GO, 505 

 Smithfield Show, notes on novelties at the imple- 

 ment department of the, 129, 251 

 Soil and the System, 397 

 Sovereign Drill Plough, 459 

 Stables, remarks on, 484 

 Stallions for the season, 314 

 Steam Culture, the development of, 453 

 Steam Culture, the science, practice, and progress 



of, 254 

 Steam Cultivators, the forthcoming trial at Leeds 



Meeting, 151 

 Steam Plough, progress of the, 381 

 Steam-ploughing, a step further in, 22 

 Steam-ploughing, amount of power applied in, 473 

 Stock, when age to be taken for entry at cattle 



shows, 151 

 Straw as an adjunct in feeding stock, 186 

 Straw, the composition and value of, 49 

 Straw, the uses of, 153 

 Straw, the value of as Food, 1 57 

 Sunday on the Farm, 216 

 Swine, the management of, 460 



Temperature low, and heavy Rainfall, effect of, 29 



Teetotal Ploughing Days, 287 



Timber supplies, deficient, 347 



Tithe Commutation — septennial averages, 150 



Towns, Drainage of, 103 



Tredegar Cattle Show, 161 



V. 



Veterinarian, the, and his value, 158 



W. 



Water for Cattle, the purification of, 30 



West Country Downs, description of Plate, 234 



Wheat, a Grain of. By C. R. Bree, M.D., 302 



Wheat sowing, a word on, 86 



Winter Crops, what is to be done with the thin, 246 



Winter ploughing, on, 16 



Wool Markets, 96, 186, 232, 325, 420, 514 



Wool, the demand and supply of, 258 



Woolslon, a visit to, 162 



Year's progress, the, 51 



